Appropriate "Safety" Colleges for an MIT Applicant?

CalAlum
Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:57:40 +0000

Berkeley’s not a safety school. I took my son on an admissions tour of the Berkeley campus last weekend. The admissions officer explained that while overall admissions now are at 20% for students who do not declare a major or who apply to noncompetitive majors, individual majors have quite different admissions rates. Students who apply to Berkeley must declare majors in some fields. For instance, a student applying to Berkeley’s School of Engineering to study Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) is facing an admissions rate of 6%. As far as I know, that is the most selective admissions rate in the country.